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Diplacanthograptus

Classification

    Phylum:  
Hemichordata
    Class:  
Pterobranchia
    Order:  
Graptoloidea
    Superfamily:  
Unknown
    Family:  
Climacograptidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Diplacanthograptus MITCHELL, 1987, p. 388
    Type Species:  
*Climacograptus spiniferus Ruedemann, 1912, p. 84, OD (=Climacograptus typicalis mut. spinifer RUEDEMANN, 1908, p. 411)


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Fossil Image
Fig. 239,4a-c. *D. spiniferus (Ruedemann), 4a-b, lectotype, AMNH 1041/5a, Utica Shale, Balston Spa, New York, USA (Riva, 1974a, fig. 4), 4c, NRM 1480 (Holm Collection), juvenile showing position of spines on proximal end and the two rods of the prosicula, Kurland, Estonia (Bulman, 1932a, pl. 3). Scale bars, 1 mm


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Geographic Distribution

worldwide


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Ordovician (Katian, Pleurograptus linearis Biozone)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Katian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
452.75
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Upper Ordovician (Katian, Pleurograptus linearis Biozone)
    Ending International Stage:  
Katian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
0
    Ending Date:  
445.21


Description

Climacograptids with pattern E astogeny, narrow, asymmetrical proximal end with sicula lying almost entirely to right of tubarium midline in obverse view, sicular aperture oriented at $-70^{\circ}$ from axis and bearing stout (but not necessarily long) virgella deflected across sicular aperture, virgella commonly matched by mesial spine on th $1^{1}$, forming pair symmetrical around tubarium axis in undeformed state, more rarely th $1^{2}$ also bears small mesial spine




References

Mitchell, C. E. 1987. Evolution and phylogenetic classification of the Diplograptacea. Palaeontology 30(2):353-405.


Museum or Author Information

AMNH, NRM, Riva, 1974, Bulman, 1932